Gentle (castle swimmer)

Travels with the boys extra chapter 3

Tw: mentions of sh

Both Siren and Kappa set out to go look for a place they could call home, but they were having troubles getting a topic to talk about. Kappa noticed that Siren has been having nightmares very frequently lately and Siren could always faintly smell blood on Kappa, so there's been some bad things happening and they don't exactly want to talk about it, yet it's always at the front of their minds. For now though the two walked silently in the wilderness while the sun started setting behind mountains. "Alright.. let's just break the ice okay?" Kappa said suddenly. "Huh? What do you mean by that?" Siren asked. "Break the ice, if we didn't have something on our minds right now we would've been talking for the past 2 hours." Both exchanged nervous stares. "I'll start, Siren.. please, why are you having nightmares so frequently lately? I'm really worried, I don't think I've ever seen you having them before." Siren looked down, as if remembering something he had been avoiding. He looked back and Kappa, and sighed. "Okay.." he slowly walked over and sat against a tree, and Kappa sat next to him. "Truthfully, I've always had nightmares about my mother. They just got so much worse once I left. I guess.. when I met you I had something else to focus on instead of what had happened. And for the first night in 8 years I had finally dreamed about something that wasn't from my past. But I knew that they would come back sooner or later." He explained. Kappa looked crushed. "You mean.. you've been having nights like that for 8 years?" He asked, his voice trembling. Siren nodded quietly. Kappa reached over and wrapped his arms tightly around him. "Oh Siren.. I'm so sorry." He said. Siren reached around and hugged Kappa. Both just stayed there, holding eachother for awhile. "Okay.. now I need to ask." Siren eventually said. Kappa slowly let him go and he sat back down next to him, making sure they're close. "I just.. I don't like how there's always your blood smell on you. It's unbearable to imagine what's happening when I'm not looking, please tell me what's wrong?" Kappa looked down at the ground, ashamed. "I um.." he started. "When.. when you were at the lab I was back at your home. And when I was there... I felt like there was a hole in my chest. I couldn't feel anything, nothing. But as I thought about everything more, I felt really angry. I was angry and sad and I.. almost did something stupid. I'm scared.. I'm scared of not feeling anything again and then just being angry so I.. force myself to feel." Siren pulled him closer and wrapped his arms around him tightly. "That will never happen again, I will make sure of that. I'll make sure you never feel nothing ever again." Kappa held onto him tightly, and sighed. "I just got a lot off my chest.. are you alright?" He felt him nod and loosened his grip slightly. "How about.. we help eachother overcome our problems, we'll do this together, no secrets okay?" Siren let go of him and nodded. Kappa slowly moved closer and then kissed him softly. "I love you Siren." He said, hugging him tightly. Both held another silence, enjoying eachothers company. "Hey Siren! Look!" Kappa exclaimed, pulling out of their hug and pointing to the sky. Siren gazed up at the sky, his eyes were met with mixes of purple and pink and blue with many speckles of stars all around, it was beautiful. Siren looked back down at Kappa, and he pointed to him. "You have stars on your face!" He said happily. Kappa looked confused for a moment, but then he smiled. "You mean my freckles?" Siren nodded. "They look like stars." Kappa laughed, and when he opened his eyes Again he gasped. "S-Siren! Your horns! Your wings!" He said. Siren looked confused and extended his wing for him to see. "Oh yeah. It's a pretty starry night tonight, my wings, horns, eyes?, and tail absorb the nuclear fusion, or the light that stars give off and reflects it back out, which makes them glow. It hasn't happened in awhile due to the nights usually being cloudy and not many stars being out. I learned that in books I read." Kappa smiled. "So they always do that when stars are out?" He asked. "If there's enough stars out heh." Siren gazed up at the stars, and then felt Kappa gently touch his wing. "Wow, you almost look like the sky itself! I never knew you could do this!" Siren laughed. "I guess even after pronouncing ourselves husbands we still have so much to learn about eachother." He smiled. "Hey! That could be our topic to talk about! We'll ask questions about eachother!" Kappa said excitedly. "Sure! Can I start?"